In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities closed to face-to-face learning, shifting entirely to online instruction midway through the spring 2020 semester. In this paper, we compare student performance in the Covid-19 affected semester to that of the previous three unaffected semesters. We consider both student grades and student performance on standardized post-tests in introductory macroeconomics, microeconomics, and statistics courses. We conclude that there were no significant differences in performance across the semesters. Despite concerns that low-income, first-generation, and minority students could suffer disproportionately, we identify no measurable effect for these population subgroups. Women are found to overperform in the Covid-affected semester when compared to previous terms. Women at our institution could be expected to earn 0.15 of a grade-point less in introductory economics courses than otherwise comparable men in pre-Covid semesters. In the Covid-affected semester, this difference disappeared, with women earning higher grades, on average, than men.

为应对Covid-19大流行，大学关闭了面对面学习，并在2020年春季学期中途完全转向在线教学。在本文中，我们将Covid-19受影响的学期与之前三个未受影响学期的学生表现进行了比较。我们在介绍性宏观经济学，微观经济学和统计学课程的标准化后测中考虑学生的成绩和学生的表现。我们得出的结论是，各学期的表现没有显着差异。尽管担心低收入，第一代和少数族裔学生可能遭受不成比例的痛苦，但我们发现这些人群没有明显的影响。与以前的学期相比，女性在Covid的学期中表现出色。在科威特大学之前的学期中，我们院校的女性在经济学入门课程中的收入应比其他男性少0.15个百分点。在受Covid影响的学期中，这种差异消失了，女性的平均成绩比男性高。